Hacking Hardware Homebrew 10+ year old wii ext. sd issue, might lose my files if done wrong...

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Hey! my old af external hard drive might not have been fat32 converted a decade+ ago (and not by me, my cousin's big bro did it originally), so i can't plug it into my pc without it saying "you must reformat it." and doing so will delete all my past info and games.

is there a way to save all my old info and get it converted?

I just wanted to delete & add new wii games T_T

Update 5/24/24: used wbfs2fat converter on hard drive, worked! but its telling me to double check it all and idk how to do that.
  • also, once i get all this working, do i just go into wiiware sites and grab games? i know the wii vault at vimm's is good.
  • i wonder if there's a way to get a 100% complete file of some games? I only want to do this with all the rhythm games.
  • Will the final update kill my harddrive/homebrew? what can i do so it doesn't do that?
 
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More information needed.
Does the SD still work in your Wii?
What is on this SD?
What do you mean with external SD? An SD reader on USB? → Might be a WBFS formatted drive.
 
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KleinesSinchen said:
More information needed.
Does the SD still work in your Wii?
What is on this SD?
What do you mean with external SD? An SD reader on USB? → Might be a WBFS formatted drive.
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1. yes, all files are read by my wii just fine, its just PC.
2. a decade of game files from 76 games.
3. turns out the name is "external hard drive" not external sd card.
 
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Try Wii Backup Manager on your computer (and do not format the drive – obviously). Should be able to copy your games to PC (and add new ones).
You can also reformat the drive aber backing up the data and use FAT32 from now on.
 
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No, you use the Drive 1 Drive 2 tabs. Set one (using the dropdown) to your external hard drive, and the other to the destination drive you want to copy to. Then select the contents to be copied and use the Transfer button in the ribbon under the tabs. This is a copy function, despite being called "transfer".
 
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If you can't read/view your Wii files in Windows, then you're using a WBFS format.
Not a bad thing, but limited being read by Windows.
This is not bad, but it will make things a little difficult.
Provide more info. Do some Googling on how to check what you have.
 
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bassviolet said:
Hey! my old af external hard drive might not have been fat32 converted a decade+ ago (and not by me, my cousin's big bro did it originally), so i can't plug it into my pc without it saying "you must reformat it." and doing so will delete all my past info and games.

is there a way to save all my old info and get it converted?

I just wanted to delete & add new wii games T_T

Update 5/24/24: used wbfs2fat converter on hard drive, worked! but its telling me to double check it all and idk how to do that.
  • also, once i get all this working, do i just go into wiiware sites and grab games? i know the wii vault at vimm's is good.
  • i wonder if there's a way to get a 100% complete file of some games? I only want to do this with all the rhythm games.
  • Will the final update kill my harddrive/homebrew? what can i do so it doesn't do that?
Click to expand...
The check is mainly a file system check like "chkdsk" according to the guide "finishing touches".

So far I know Wiiware games are .wad files you'll need to install using a WAD manager. Disc-based games mostly are in .wbfs format already, you can use the Wii Backup Manager to transfer them to the hard disk.

100% complete save files for most games can be found at Gamespot (https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/). After downloading you can use something like "SaveGame Manager GX" to install them on the console. It requires you to at least start the game once until the point it creates a save file before you can install one.
 

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